B. Lynn Pascoe

B. Lynn Pascoe

B. Lynn Pascoe is the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs.

Pascoe was previously United States ambassador to Indonesia, from 2004 to 2007.

On 4 September 2001, he took up duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Earlier, he served as U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Regional Conflicts and the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

From 1993 to 1996, he was the director of the American Institute in Taiwan. He also served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Bureau of the State Department, Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Beijing, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of States and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.

In his diplomatic career, he has been posted to Moscow, Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, and Kuala Lumpur. He speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Born in 1943, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas and his Master of Arts from Columbia University.

He is married with two daughters.

External links

* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/38092.htm U.S. Department of State: Biography of B. Lynn Pascoe]
* [http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/SMG.asp?smgID=122 United Nations: Biography of B. Lynn Pascoe]
* [http://www.nndb.com/people/951/000127570/ NNDB: B. Lynn Pascoe]


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